atmasphere
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| Is pre-amp getting killed? Even if you have only digital a preamp is still useful; one way is if you want to run your interconnect cables a long way to the amplifiers (which might be sitting by the speakers with short speaker cables). Many digital products have poor volume ... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. FWIW, if you have the old idler, it can be rebuilt by Russell Industries on the east coast:http://russellind.com/downl.htmThe PRB catalog is the old Projector Recorder Belt company that was located in Whitewater Wisconsin prior to Russell Ind. buy... | |
| Empire Turntable Parts The original part is not an LED!If that is what is in there, either someone modified it, or else the LED failed shortly after installation.The correct lamp is a neon lamp as I indicated earlier. | |
| Serious Passive Preamp question I don’t believe ANY active preamp can better a "properly used" passive for transparency, dynamics, uncoloured sound and extension in both the highs and lows. Unless you need to purposely colour the sound with the coloration's that all active pr... | |
| Is there actually a difference? When I asked about the viability of adapting the F5 to power JFETs he pointed me to an example he'd built using the Sony devicesSure- but that's not the same as saying they are the same. Google is your friend.SITs are not in production- power JFET... | |
| If aftermarket premium power cords work, why won’t short runs of premium XLR cables work? I am sad your confidence in ’theory’ precludes all fact.@elizabeth Its not theory. I've been doing this a long time, and I've seen plenty of cases where one cable sounds better than another, including balanced. The thing is though that most high e... | |
| Let's talk power cords And there it is in a nutshell. The only ones selling power cords made of Romex are the ones that are either ignorant of electrical code or have simply elected to stare down the shotgun barrels.As a manufacturer, I follow the code because I don't w... | |
| If aftermarket premium power cords work, why won’t short runs of premium XLR cables work? In my experience, different XLR do sound very different. I had Kimber Hero, Cardas Parsec, and finally Kimber KS1116. Each a big jump in price, and a good step up in sound. If this was the case, then the associated gear didn't support the bala... | |
| Empire Turntable Parts Sounds like corrosion in the socket is the culprit. A little DeOxit should sort that out. | |
| SL1200GAE New Tonearm did you position the arm on Norberts table just so the wire would miss the hinge? I was wondering about why the arm is shifted to the left so much?If I recall correctly we made the arm board for his machine but Tri of Triplanar actually did the ... | |
| What is the fascination? No, it was never the best. But when it first came out in the '60s, it was a whole lot better than much of the competition. ?? The Empire was better, the Lenco was better, Thorens, the Garrard 301, Dual, Miracord, even some of the higher end BSRs..... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Tube amps are pretty sensitive to power cords too... | |
| Is there actually a difference? Just for those unaware, SITs and VFETs are just power JFETs. SIT stands for Static Induction Transistor. VFETs are SIT devices. Power JFETs are a different beast:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFETThere's a lot less info on SITs:https://en.wikipedi... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? most never used snubber circuits to deal with the fact that diodes ring.Actually its the power transformer that rings, which is why snubbing the rectifiers is often not that effective. HEXFRED rectifiers help, since it is the capacitance of the re... | |
| If aftermarket premium power cords work, why won’t short runs of premium XLR cables work? Whatever boxes are on the cable is not really relevant (and FWIW, they don't really serve a purpose either). If the equipment supports the balanced standard, then you can use extensions all you like. If the equipment does not, the results are less... |